Amazon Armor

Boryana Rossa Works 2013-2014

This book covers my projects completed in 2013 and 2014,

representing my thoughts on the body as an active political agent

that constructs the attitude towards ourselves and the others. All

works have been inspired by my double mastectomy and the

changes in my physical and mental understanding of self after

this radical body change. The myth about the women-warriors –

the Amazons – who cut their breasts off to better steady their bows,

was the inspiration not only for this series of projects but also for

the way I think about myself, my new body shape, its functionality

and beauty.

Boryana Rossa, 2014

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TV/Radio

 

Българска свободна телевизия. Боряна Росса в „Гараж“: в търсене на гените на Бог и политическите измерения на бъдещето. Интервю с Юлия Владимирова. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo-8HbX6Ke4

BTV, “Boryana Rossa: With a sense of humor against depression” Predi obed, May 15. 2018. https://www.btv.bg/video/shows/predi-obed/videos/s-chuvstvo-za-humor-sreshtu-depresijata.html

Bulgarian National TV, Channel 1, “The tree of life.” The day begins with culture. May 31, 2018.  7-22 min. https://bnt1.bnt.bg/bg/a/tsentr-zhorzh-pompidu-ot-parizh-gostuva-v-sofiya-31052018

Bulgarian National TV, Channel 1. “The show “Augmented Realism” by Boryana Rossa.” Deniat zapochva s kultura. Sept 8, 2017.  https://video.bnt.bg/bg/a/izlozhbata-obogaten-realizm-na-boryana-rossa

Bulgarian National TV, Channel 1. “Sofia Queer Forum: Red Love.” Deniat zapochva s kultura. Oct 20, 2017. Last visited, Dec 27, 2017) https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/boryana-rosa-za-programata-na-sofiya-kuir-forum#

Bulgarian National Radio, Christo Botev Program. “Muzei v efira” “Boryana Rossa: Augmented Realism.” Interview by Diana Popova. July 24, 2017.   http://bnr.bg/hristobotev/post/100855198/obogatenata-realnost-na

Bulgarian National Radio, Christo Botev Program. Boryana Rossa: Within the Augmented Reality Between Life and Art. Interview by Yana Punkina. Sept 11, 2017.    http://bnr.bg/hristobotev/post/100871789

Bulgarian National Radio, Program Christo Botev, Show “Kakvo se sluchva” with Mariana Gancheva. “The Man and the Woman after the End of Communism,” Live talk with Boryana Rossa, 17.20 min. June. 23 th. 2016. http://bnr.bg/post/100707307

Bulgarian National Radio, Program Horizont, Show “Horizont do obed” with Irina Nedeva. “Boryana Rossa Presents an Art Show Dedicated to Representation of Women in Socialist Cinema.” Live talk with Boryana Rossa, 8 min. June. 20 th. 2016. http://bnr.bg/post/100705583/chaka

Bureau Art Record, Sofia Queer Forum 2014: Interviews with Stefka Tsaneva, Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov. https://vimeo.com/106279290

Bulgarian National TV, Channel 1. ICA- Oleg Mavromatti:”Idealnata dyrzava.” Deniat zapochva s kultura. July. 10. 2015.  http://bnt.bg/predavanyia/denyat-zapochva-s-kultura/kino-vecheri-pod-otkrito-nebe-10-07-2015

Bulgarian National Radio. Program Horizont. “Provokaciite “Amazonska bronia” I “Idealnata dyrzava.” Horizont predi vsichki. July. 28.2015. http://bnr.bg/post/100584984/provokaciite-amazonska-brona-i-idealnata-darjava

Bulgarian National TV Channel 1. The Day Begins with Culture. Katya Atanasova about Boryana Rossa in Bulgarian Artists Around the World. Dec, 4th, 2013. http://bit.ly/LD8Gcx

Nova TV. Prime time Newsreel on the Feminist Workshop. Dec 15, 2013. http://bit.ly/1mq4Hvp

Publications

 

 

 

Sandra D’Urso (2018) On Abjection, Performance Research, 23:4-5, 141-145.

Panayotov, Stanimir. “Receptive Solidarity: Conceptual Addendum to the Political Art of Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti,” in: Jelisaveta Blagojević, Mirjana Stošić and Orli Fridman (Eds.), #Political, Belgrade: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, 2017, pp. 219-223.

Amy Bryzgel, Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960.(Manchester; Manchester University Press), 2017.

Boubnova, Iara. “Sofia Queer Forum – a Unique Art Event,”  Marginalia, Nov 11, 2017. (Last visited Dec 27, 2017). http://www.marginalia.bg/aktsent/sofiya-kuiar-forum-edno-unikalno-hudozhestveno-sabitie/

Vassileva, Maria, Boryana Rossa: Beyond the Edge. ARTIZANIN magazine, #1, Oct 1, 2017.

Nadia Schekerova, Boryana Rossa: I think about my body as more beautiful. (interview) EVA magazine, #228, November 2017. (Last visited Dec 27, 2017) http://eva.bg/article/33119-Boryana-Rossa-Mislya-za-novoto-si-tyalo-kato-za-po-krasivo)

Harris, Susan and Marry Anne Staniszewsky ed. Exit Art: Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art. (New York : Exit Art ; Göttingen : Steidl) 2016. 329, 360.

Adam Zaretsky, “OOPS: Object-Oriented Psychopathia Sexualis.” In  Object-Oriented Feminism. Edited by Kathrine Behar. (Mineapolis, London: University of Minessota Press) 2016.

Mihailova, Vladiya. “The Parade of Perversion” In Photo. Vol. 2, Sofia, 2016

Panayotov, Stanimir. “Sexing the Border through the Body: Katarzyna Kosmala (ed.),”  Journal of Art and Media Studies, Issue No. 10, October 2016.

Vaisova, Lea. “Comentar na Lea Vaisova varhu kataloga “Amazonska bronia” na Boryana Rossa.” Blister. November 19. 2015. (Last visited 1.10.2016).

Art for Change – 1985-2015, Edited by Maria Massileva. 46, 94, 95,100, 106, 183, 190, 187. Sofia: Sofia City Art Gallery, Maria Vassileva.

8th of March: A brief History of Art in the Last 25 years in Texts and Images. Edited by Maria Vassileva. Sofia: Gaudenz Ruf. 2014.

Plungian, Nadia. “Armor for the Disarmed.” In Amazon Armor. Edited by Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov. 5-14. Sofia: KOI Books. 2015.

Vinebaum, Lisa. Interview with Boryaa Rossa for Rapid Pulse Performance Festival, Chicago, 2014,   http://boryanarossa.com/interview-with-boryana-rossa-for-rapid-pulse-performance-art-festival-chicago-2014/

Mavromatti, Oleg. “Sympathetic Prosthesis.” In Amazon Armor. Edited by Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov. 15-18. Sofia: KOI Books. 2015.

Knaup Bettina and Beatrice Ellen Stammer, ed. Re.act.feminism a Performing Archive. Berlin: Verlag fur Modern Kunst and London: Live Art Development Agency, 2014.

Mavromatti, Oleg. “Krasivata urodliwost,” Kultura Weekly, #38, (2787), Nov 14, 2014

Bryzgel, Amy. “Continuity And Change: Performance Art In Eastern Europe Since The 1960s.” In Idea – Arta – Societate. Issue #45, 2014. Accessed October 10th, 2015.http://idea.ro/revista/?q=en/node/41&articol=835

Abalakova, Nataliya. “Tajna apparata – “Taktilnoe kino” – I vuybor Boryanyi: Hudoznik Natalia Abalakova o performance Boryanuy Rossa v galeree “Sol”. 10—24. www.cnftm.ru. # 3/296.  February. 2014.

Tekelburg, Nina. Performing Stories: Erzählen in Theater und Performance, 2013

Murdzeva, Ivana. “Gorgons in the Storage room or Apocalypse Now.” Sofia Live. April, 2013. Accessed January 20th, 2014. http://bit.ly/1hgc5bF

Parvanova, Mariana. “The Apocalypse is Coming in the Sofia City Art Gallery. Three Women Authors Offer Unordinary Look at the Seasones of Life.” Monitor. May 1st. 2013. Accessed January 20th, 2014.  http://www.monitor.bg/article?id=383055

Shadkovska, Katya. “Interview with Boryana Rossa,” Politicheskaya propaganda. September 2013. Accessed January, 20, 2014. http://politpropaganda.com/education/860

Tsaneva, Stefka. “Politika – Art – Gender/Queer.” (Panel discussion with Boryana Rossa, Stanimir Panayotov, Vera Mlechevska, Stefka Tsaneva, Leda Ekimova). Blister Magazine, March 17, 2013. Accessed January 20, 2014. http://bit.ly/1cNwwbp

Bae, Myng – ji. “Tell me Her Story,” In Tell Me Her Story (exhibition catalogue), 06-17. Seoul: Coreana Museum of Art, 2013.

Vassileva, Maria. “1996-2012” In A Possible History. Bulgarian art through the collection of the Sofia City Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue) Edited by Adelina Fileva and Maria Vassileva. 162-197. Sofia: Sofia City Art Gallery, 2013.  https://issuu.com/mariaart/docs/last_last_maket_vazmojnaistoria (Accessed March, 1st, 2017).

Dekel, Tal. 2013. “European Artists, Between East and West.” In Women and Migration – Art and Gender in a Transnational Age. (Tel-Aviv, Israel: Resling Publishing House). 226 [in Hebrew]. ISBN: 0058500011088

Kuiumjieva, Svetlana. “One for All and All for It. The Platforms, Stages and Ideologists of Performance Art in Bulgaria,” Abitare Bulgaria, n. 018, 2013.

Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague. (Sofia: Journal 1) 2012.

Who Left What Behind, exhibition catalogue. Sofia, Ankara: Ministry of Culture of Turkey) 2012.

Unlimited (exhibition catalogue) (Sofia: Art Project Depot) 2012.

“Sofia Queer Forum: We Live in a Constant Time of Festivals,” November 20, 2012. Sofia Live.

Tsaneva, Stefka. “Who Cares about Judith Butler?: About Feminism, the New Hopes and the Queer Forum.” Blister Magazine, November 18, 2012. http://www.blistermagazine.com/eggs/na-kogo-mu-puka-za-dzhudit-batlar (accessed January 20, 2013)

Mlechevska, Vera. “Rainbow Over Sofia.” Kultura Weekly. #43 (2705), December 14, 2012.

Manchev, Boyan. Out of Time. (exhibition catalogue). Sofia: Sofia City Art Gallery, 2011.

Nikolov, Mario. “Boryana Rossa: We’ve Lost the Understanding that Art is Valuable by Itslef.” Art News. Sofia,  November 25, 2011.

Dekel, Tal. “Body, Gender and Transnationalism: Art and Cultural Criticismin a Changing Europe.” In Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Vol. 9, No. 2, 2009.

Overbye, Dennis. “Hello Van Gogh, Can You Hear Me Now?” New York Times, April 13, 2009.

Warner, Emily. “Corpus Extremus (Life +).” Brooklyn Rail, April 2009.

Frazzetto, Giovanni. “A Gallery of Chimaeric Curiosities.” Nature, Vol. 458, March 12th 2009.

Phoenix, Val. “re.act.feminism.” n.paradoxa. vol. 24, 2009, 22-27.

Nungesser, Michael. “re.act.feminism.” Kunstforum International,  Band 196, 2009, 272.

Jones, Amelia. “1970/2007: The Return of Feminist Art,” X-TRA, vol. 10, # 4, 2008.

Phoenix, Val. “Open Stage.” Online Frieze Magazine, March 11, 2009.

Milevska, Suzana. “ The “Silkworm Cocoon.” Gender Difference and the Impact of the Visual Culture on Contemporary Art in the Balkans,” In Gender Check, (exhibition catalogue), ed. Bojana Pejic (Wien: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2009), 230-235.

Shannon, Jonathan. “Sci-Art at Exit Art.” Time Out, NYC, February 27th, 2009, 6:59 pm.

Yuri, Carrie. “Feminists in Action,” Artilery, November/December 2008, 30-41.

Popova, Diana. “Boryana Rossa: Bio (art) and Cyber (Feminism),” Culture Weekly, No. 33 (2472), October 3, 2007.

Schjeldahl, Peter. “Women’s Work: Feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum.” New Yorker. April 9, 2007.

Kotik, Charlotta. “Post Totalitarian Art: Eastern and Central Europe. New Directions in Contemporary Art.” In Global Feminisms (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin. Merrel, London/ New York: Brooklyn Museum 2007. 153-157.

Smith, Roberta. “They Are Artists Who Are Women; Hear Them Roar.” New York Times, March 23, 2007.

 

“Women Gone Wild.” The New York Blade.  Monday, July 31, 2006.

Volke, Matt. “Robot Show Clicks and Whrris into Museum.“ The Sunday Gazette, April 23, 2006.

Balahovskaia, Faina. “Teplosberezenie. Performance “The Craftiest Word” at Gallery Praktika”, Vremia Novostei. No.12, 26.01.2006

Bulgarian Art Critic’s Chart for Best Artists 2005, Kultura Weekly, No. 5 (2400) 10 February, 2006.

Kovalev,  Andrei. “Future in the Past.” Time Out. Moscow, No. 222006, January 16th 2006.

SEGA Newspaper, “Memories From the Future. Cyborgs are Ruling.” September 1st, 2006.

Nikolaeva, Galina. “Cinema Fantom 2 and not Only This.” Kino Magazine, No. 1, 2005.

Bulatov, Dmitry. “Art belongs to the neurons (MEART at the Moscow Biennale).” Nezavisimaia Gazeta. Moscow, January 31st 2005.

Atanasova, Katia. “I Robot,” Capital Light Magazine, No. 8, Year 2, 2004. 3-25.

Kostadinov, Boris. “BG Top 5 at Arte Fiera.“ HI COMM. No. 34, 2004. 45-46.

D’ Agostino, David. ”Sofia.” Contemporary UK, September, 2002.

Stefanov, Svilen. “Art Between Tradition and Provocation.” Literaturen Forum. Sofia. 2001. 12-13.

”Studio: Boryana Dragoeva.” Literaturen Forum. No. 8 (449), 27.02.2001

Iara Bubnova. “Aperto Bulgaria,”  Flash Art, December 2001. 102-107.

“<hers> : Video als weibliches Terrain.”  Kunstforum International. January/March, 2001. 140-145.

Ilina Koralova, “Boryana Dragoeva.” In <hers> : Video als Weibliches Terrain,  (exhibition catalogue), ed. Stella Rollig. Graz: Landesmuseum Joanneum, 2000. 82- 87.

Vasileva, Maria. “Women on the Edge of Feminism,” Artmargins, September 20th, 2001. (http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/398-women-on-the-edge-of-feminism)

Boubnova, Iara. “Short Identities”, Flash Art International, September-Octover, 2000.

Kostadinov, Boris. “Sumatoha -Current Art & Culture,” Bulgarian National TV, Canal 1, March 5th, 1999.

“Artist’s Profile.” Leteratura (Lettere Internationalle) No. 17/1997.